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The IU-Greens councilor in the city of Murcia, José Ignacio Tornel, today expressed "concern" at the deterioration of the former municipal jail, and said that the recovery of this property "will encarecida" according worsen their state.

Tornel has reported the effects of a transfer of ownership "extremely slow", which reveals, in his view, the "little interest" of the City to regain a building of clear value to the city during the boom years.

"We must not confuse the debate on possible uses of this facility with the complaint in this consistory degrading treatment grants its historical and artistic heritage," said the mayor, after stating that "the Old Jail is one more attempt to hide PP disinterest ".

The former prison is included in the list of buildings and protected elements of Murcia with grade 2, involving structural protection.

The record of that catalog puts in their architectural significance and should be preserved notes that all the spatial structure of both the first building as the panopticon prison whose central dome collapsed while.

Tornel denounced "this urban city back to the Chamber who has practiced for years, refusing to back the city for citizens to give it to a predator macrourbanismo spaces that only meets the private business and the enjoyment of the common good that is historical and artistic heritage. "

"The dilapidated state of the former prison is the fruit of that scam."

"In the same way that the Murcia know the great mobility projects for our city to coincide with the appearance of an international symposium House about the protection of our heritage is limited to the administrative processing of the card catalog, with little follow-up back ".

It has called for the recovery of the building is made, to the extent possible, through municipal workshop schools.

It has also highlighted the need to give to Santa Maria de Gracia municipal facilities for the development of social and cultural activities, given the shortage of spaces for neighborhood associations and organized groups.

"In any case, we are opposed to the public good becomes occupied by private entities, given the temptation to sell public assets to patch the damage of waste that precedes us," he finished.

Source: IURM